GALEN: A third generation terminology tool to support a multipurpose national coding system for surgical procedures

International Journal of Medical Informatics

Volumn 58-59, Issue , 2000, Pages 71-85

  Trombert Paviot, B ^a   Rodrigues, J M ^a   Rogers, J E ^b   Baud, R ^c   Van Der Haring, E ^d   Rassinoux, A M ^c   Abrial, V ^a   Clavel, L ^a   Idir, H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ JEAN MONNET   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

^d RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Artificial intelligence; Coding system; Knowledge representation; Natural language understanding; Surgical procedures; Terminology

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; COMPUTER AIDED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENCODING (SYMBOLS); INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; SURGERY; TERMINOLOGY;

CLASSIFICATION WORKBENCH; ELECTRONIC PATIENT RECORD DETAILED MONITORING; MEDICALLY ORIENTED RECURSIVE ONTOLOGY; MULTIPURPOSE NATIONAL CODING SYSTEM; NATURAL LANGUAGE UNDERSTANDING; THIRD GENERATION TERMINOLOGY TOOL;

KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION;

ARTICLE; CODING; COMPUTER SYSTEM; DATA BASE; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LANGUAGE; MEDICAL RECORD; NOMENCLATURE; PATIENT CODING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS;

ABSTRACTING AND INDEXING; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; EXPERT SYSTEMS; HUMANS; MEDICAL RECORDS SYSTEMS, COMPUTERIZED; NATIONAL HEALTH PROGRAMS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; SOFTWARE; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, OPERATIVE; TERMINOLOGY; VOCABULARY, CONTROLLED;

EID: 18344415387     PISSN: 13865056     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1386-5056(00)00077-0     Document Type: Article

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